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Review Or New Publications.
REVIEW or NEW PUBLICATIONS .
Essays , by a Society of Gentlemen at Zxeter . 8 vo . Cadell and Davies . fcONCI . VDED FROM PAGE 43 . ] WE resume , with pleasure , the review of this very respectable and interesting volume . The sixth essay is entitled , ' Historical Outlines of Falconry " which shews extensive readingan acute judgmentand lively
, , , genius , in the author . He supports , with considerable ingenuity , the position of this diversion coming to Britain from the East , and that too , much earlier than the existence of the Turkish Empire . Here we find a remark to prove the colonization of this island by the Asiatics , which , if not conclusive , is striking and powerful : ' The Aborigines of Britain , according to the vulgar opinion , were a colony from Gaul . But they resembled the Gauls in few particulars . In their religion ,- their language , their usages , and their
diversions , they were very unlike the Gauls , and indeed the European tribes in general . But I could prove , that in all these points , they approached very nearly to the Asiatics . - The British war-chariot had its prototype in the east . It was too incommodious ' a vehicle in an island , almost every where rising into hills , or declining into vailies , to have been lirst invented in Britain . It was certainly imported into Britain by its primitive inhabitants ; and the perseverance of the Aborigines , in still using this chariot for the purposes of war , " -after they had colonized the island , notwithstanding the inconvenience of their ne-. v situation , seems , itself , to point out their origin . In the same ' manner , our love of falconry , notwithstanding tlie inequalities of ground I
have just remarked , so ill-suited to the sport , strongly speaks our descent from the eastern nations , whose fine champaign countries may be ranged by the falconer without interruption , and with little danger . This is followed , by a profound , but dry , ' Chronological Essay on . Ptolemy ' s Mode of Computation , ' in wl-ich the author labours to shew that this antient author always ascribes the year of a king ' s death to bis successor , and thereby to clear the difficulties which have hitherto perplexed the
Ptolemaic canon . We do not believe this to be a new position . The next essay is a very valuable one , ' On the Contraction of the Iris , ' and must be read with peculiar satisfaction by every student of medical science . It is clearly the production of a skilful experimentalist . We are next presented with a pleasing and well-written paper pn ' The Mythology ancl Worshi p of the Serpent , ' the origin of which tlie author traces to the Egyptians .
A poetical piece follows ' To the Gods of India , on the departure of Sir John Shore , and Hubert Cornish , Esq . from England . ' There is great feeling and elegance in this address , united to an extensive knowledge of the Oriental Mythology . , Essay XI . is ' On Literary Fame , and the Historical Characters of Shakspeare , ' in which there is very little novelty of remark , though a few illustrations of in the immortal bard ilin
particular passages , are happy - genious . . ¦ We have next ' Some Cursory Remarks on the Present State of Philosophy and Science , ' in which . the observations on modern-Chemistry are the roost valuable .
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Review Or New Publications.
REVIEW or NEW PUBLICATIONS .
Essays , by a Society of Gentlemen at Zxeter . 8 vo . Cadell and Davies . fcONCI . VDED FROM PAGE 43 . ] WE resume , with pleasure , the review of this very respectable and interesting volume . The sixth essay is entitled , ' Historical Outlines of Falconry " which shews extensive readingan acute judgmentand lively
, , , genius , in the author . He supports , with considerable ingenuity , the position of this diversion coming to Britain from the East , and that too , much earlier than the existence of the Turkish Empire . Here we find a remark to prove the colonization of this island by the Asiatics , which , if not conclusive , is striking and powerful : ' The Aborigines of Britain , according to the vulgar opinion , were a colony from Gaul . But they resembled the Gauls in few particulars . In their religion ,- their language , their usages , and their
diversions , they were very unlike the Gauls , and indeed the European tribes in general . But I could prove , that in all these points , they approached very nearly to the Asiatics . - The British war-chariot had its prototype in the east . It was too incommodious ' a vehicle in an island , almost every where rising into hills , or declining into vailies , to have been lirst invented in Britain . It was certainly imported into Britain by its primitive inhabitants ; and the perseverance of the Aborigines , in still using this chariot for the purposes of war , " -after they had colonized the island , notwithstanding the inconvenience of their ne-. v situation , seems , itself , to point out their origin . In the same ' manner , our love of falconry , notwithstanding tlie inequalities of ground I
have just remarked , so ill-suited to the sport , strongly speaks our descent from the eastern nations , whose fine champaign countries may be ranged by the falconer without interruption , and with little danger . This is followed , by a profound , but dry , ' Chronological Essay on . Ptolemy ' s Mode of Computation , ' in wl-ich the author labours to shew that this antient author always ascribes the year of a king ' s death to bis successor , and thereby to clear the difficulties which have hitherto perplexed the
Ptolemaic canon . We do not believe this to be a new position . The next essay is a very valuable one , ' On the Contraction of the Iris , ' and must be read with peculiar satisfaction by every student of medical science . It is clearly the production of a skilful experimentalist . We are next presented with a pleasing and well-written paper pn ' The Mythology ancl Worshi p of the Serpent , ' the origin of which tlie author traces to the Egyptians .
A poetical piece follows ' To the Gods of India , on the departure of Sir John Shore , and Hubert Cornish , Esq . from England . ' There is great feeling and elegance in this address , united to an extensive knowledge of the Oriental Mythology . , Essay XI . is ' On Literary Fame , and the Historical Characters of Shakspeare , ' in which there is very little novelty of remark , though a few illustrations of in the immortal bard ilin
particular passages , are happy - genious . . ¦ We have next ' Some Cursory Remarks on the Present State of Philosophy and Science , ' in which . the observations on modern-Chemistry are the roost valuable .